Oschersleben: Ten Kate Honda Saturday summary

Foret to start from second on the grid.
Fabien Foret's run of pole positions came to an end this afternoon in
Oschersleben. Katsuaki Fujiwara just beat Foret to that coveted Breil
pole-winner's watch, but as Fabien has won five of them already...

Foret to start from second on the grid.

Fabien Foret's run of pole positions came to an end this afternoon in
Oschersleben. Katsuaki Fujiwara just beat Foret to that coveted Breil
pole-winner's watch, but as Fabien has won five of them already this season,
four in a row, he's not too disappointed.

"The most important thing is the race," he said after qualifying had ended.
"OK, I always like to make it into pole position but I am on the front row
and that's important here. I made some mistakes on my two fastest laps,
which cost me time, I think I would have claimed pole without them. My race
set up is very good, as always my Ten Kate Honda CBR600FS is very fast but
the race will be close again. I will try to conserve my tyres and my energy
for a strong finish in the race."

Behind him his team mate Iain MacPherson waited until the closing stages of
the session to jump up the order, "I was starting to panic when I was still
back on the third row," admitted the Scotsman. "That's not a good place to
start from here as the track is very twisty and you need a good start,
otherwise you just get bogged down in race traffic. I got a little more
aggressive in the closing stages and that did the trick. I was relieved when
I got up onto the second row, even though I made a couple of mistakes on my
fast lap."

MacPherson starts Sunday's race from sixth on the grid. Also in the top
eight and enjoying Ten Kate racing power were Chris Vermeulen and Karl
Muggeridge who qualified fifth and eighth respectively to make it four Ten
Kate prepared bikes in the top eight grid slots.

"It's nice to see so many of our bikes doing so well," grinned Team Manager
Ronald ten Kate. "The race will be very hard, but we have good grid
positions and both Pirelli and WP Suspension have worked very hard on the
race set up."